Road_to_Solo_driving_handbook (2)

Rules and responsibilities
Speed limited areas
There are other signs which designate
speed limits for whole areas (networks
of roads) which have a sign on each
road into the area. These reduced
speed limits are to improve safety and
like all speed limits must be obeyed.
Area speed limit sign
Freeways and country roads
The speed limit on freeways and outside
built-up areas in Victoria is 100 km/h
unless signs tell you otherwise. Some
main streets in rural town centres have
50 km/h speed limits and, many rural
railway level crossings have 80 km/h
speed limits.
School speed limits
Children need to be protected from
fast travelling vehicles. Children are
easily distracted and can forget to
look for dangers on the road. They
also have trouble judging the speed
of approaching vehicles. For these
reasons, there are lower speed limits
outside all Victorian schools. Static or
electronic variable signs are used
to alert drivers to lower speed limits,
such as:
Permanent speed sign
Time based speed sign
Electronic speed sign
permanent 40 km/h
speed limits outside
schools on most
50 km/h roads.
time based
40 km/h speed
limits outside
schools on
60 km/h and
70 km/h roads.
40 km/h and 60 km/h
time based limits apply
on roads where the
speed limit is 80 km/h
or above.
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